| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | DYNASTIES OF CHINA $2000: This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism the Han dynasty |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | EDUCATORS $400: I'd like to thank this school founded in the 380s B.C. that employed Aristotle, who left after not getting a big promotion the Academy |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $800: This Persian ruler of the 500s B.C. is mentioned in the books of Ezra, Haggai & Zechariah Darius |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: BWI--these 2 cities are the B & the W Baltimore and Washington, D.C. |
| #7498, aired 2017-03-29 | IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil |
| #7422, aired 2016-12-13 | THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $1200: In the 1st century B.C., this epistle apostle called for God to curse competing preachers (St.) Paul |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $800: (I'm Kidd O'Shea from ABC 7 News.) All vice presidents have worked out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, starting with this man, who in 1961 wanted an office in the White House but was moved next door as part of his sidelining by the administration Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $200: A:
Present plural of "to be" are |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $400: B:
A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9 Babel |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $600: C:
A hood like Batman wears a cowl |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $800: D:
Adjective meaning "sweet", like a pleasant tone dulcet |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $1000: E:
Latin plural for mistakes in a text errata |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $800: D.C. is the suffragette city to see Stanton, Mott & this woman, carved from an 8-ton block of marble (Susan B.) Anthony |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | THE STATE OF WASHINGTON $400: From 5000 B.C. to the 1800s A.D., Native American tribes lived in the foothills of this mountain they called "Takhoma" Mount Rainier |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | EMPIRE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) The map here shows the growth
of this empire, from 275 B.C. to 133 B.C.
to 14 A.D. & to 117 A.D. the Roman Empire |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | MEDICAL PROBLEMS $800: This viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver has A, B, C, D & E types hepatitis |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | TV LOGOS $200: B.C. or A.D., this is one of my favorite spots on the dial the History channel |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda |
| #6510, aired 2012-12-28 | LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION $1200: Built between 200 B.C. & 500 A.D., the earthworks called the Hopewell Mounds are in this Great Lakes state Ohio |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | ALL ABOUT D $1200: Around 800 B.C. the Greeks made their letter D in the form of this shape & called it delta a triangle |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $200: Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece the Huns |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds bags of blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Every unit of blood is screened & tested for many different viruses, including HIV, & infections, including this--both B & C hepatitis |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | FILL IN THE SONG TITLE $200: The 4 Seasons, or Fergie: "B.G.D.C." "Big Girls Don't Cry" |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | LET ME MAKE A PREDICTION $1600: These Greek female prophets made their predictions from the 500s B.C. until suppressed in 393 A.D. the Oracles |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $400: New Year's Day 5 B.C. to New Year's Day 5 A.D. 9 |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $200: This branch of mathematics uses letters to symbolize numbers in equations algebra |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $400: To shake or wave a weapon menacingly brandish |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $600: From the Latin for "to come round", it's what you do when you want to avoid something circumvent |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: If you're on the "horns" of one of these situations with unpleasant options, good luck with your choice dilemma |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A European car maker, or an authoritative decree fiat |
| #5725, aired 2009-06-26 | LIKE A SURGEON $1200: Sushruta pioneered this reconstructive process around 600 B.C.; he'd make more money in 90210 today plastic surgery |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | THEY RULED! $1600: Roman around
(27 B.C. to 14 A.D.) Augustus (Caesar) |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $200: Queen Victoria married this man in an elaborate ceremony in 1840 Prince Albert |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $400: The object of this dice game is to move all 15 stones from the triangles & take them off the board backgammon |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $600: A mountain range in the Northwestern United States, or some big waterfalls the Cascades |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $800: In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this discontent |
| #5398, aired 2008-02-13 | A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A superficial appearance or the front of a building the facade |
| #5254, aired 2007-06-14 | HISTORICAL BLOGS. $400: Circa 8th c. B.C.: Writing the 2 epic poems that'll make me famous! Scholars would never doubt my existence... d'oh! Homer |
| #4942, aired 2006-02-21 | EARLY MAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Homo erectus reached this island between 1 & 2 million B.C.; Homo Dutch traderensis, in 1596 A.D. Java |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | BE B.C. $800: This physician was referred to as the Asclepiad of Cos--I'd swear an oath on it Hippocrates |
| #4868, aired 2005-11-09 | NAME THAT ROMAN EMPEROR $1000: 27 B.C.-14 A.D.:
His sister married Mark Antony & he defeated Mark Antony Augustus |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $200: Billy loves the Red Sox no matter what; he loves 'em
A) eerily
B) unconditionally
C) ceremoniously
D) haphazardly unconditionally |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $600: Paintbrush: artist as
A) writer: pen
B) lawsuit: duck
C) saw: carpenter
D) stethoscope: supermodel saw: carpenter |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | THE PRE-PSAT $800: Ounce: gallon as
A) water: wine
B) light: dark
C) book: chapter
D) inch: yard inch: yard |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE $800: This roamin' Roman led the invasions of Gaul in 58 B.C. & Britain in 55 B.C.; he'd be dead 11 years after that Julius Caesar |
| #4794, aired 2005-06-09 | "DEAD" RECKONING $600: The most famous of these may have formed the library of a Jewish community that lived from about 150 B.C. to 70 A.D. the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PRE-DATERS $400: The year immediately preceding 1 A.D. on the Gregorian calendar 1 B.C. |
| #4662, aired 2004-12-07 | PUT OUT THE CHINA $1200: In 87 B.C. the Chinese recorded an astronomical phenomenon that scientists think was this, also seen in 1607 A.D. Halley's Comet |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $200: …that means of secondary importance:
A. ancillary
B. fiduciary
C. habilimentary
D. pecuniary ancillary |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $400: …that means to perplex:
A. acrimonious
B. congruous
C. nonplus
D. tremulous nonplus |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $600: …that means face up:
A. prostrate
B. prone
C. supine
D. incline supine |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $800: …that means verbal abuse:
A. abrogation
B. cogitation
C. sinistration
D. vituperation vituperation |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $1000: …that means not sincere:
A. dissentious
B. disputatious
C. disingenuous
D. discommodious disingenuous |
| #4528, aired 2004-04-21 | B.C.'n YOU $1200: About 600 B.C. this poet of Lesbos put on quite a show; while reciting her poetry she'd strum a lyre Sappho |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | SPELL THAT GOVERNOR $2000: Of Maine, a distant relative of bestselling thriller author David, he's John... B-A-L-D-A-C-C-I |
| #4476, aired 2004-02-09 | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $1,000 (Daily Double): A, B, C, D, K
(8) vitamins |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAME SPELLING $2000: Rutherford Hayes B-I-R-C-H-A-R-D |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $200: You'll need the equipment seen here to play this popular backyard game badminton |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $400: One of the many depictions of this Nepalese-born man is seen here Buddha |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $600: Be prepared to fly along at breakneck speeds using one of these transports bobsled |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $800: It's the large country of 170 million seen here Brazil |
| #4379, aired 2003-09-25 | C D "B" $1000: This weather forecaster can help save you a lot of trouble a barometer |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | INVENTIVE MINDS $400: In the 1930s inventive minds at Warner's introduced the A, B, C & D cup sizes for these bras |
| #4343, aired 2003-06-18 | PLACES TO VISIT $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Belize) Xunantunich was a ceremonial center of this civilization that flourished from about 300 B.C. to 900 A.D. Mayans |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,500 (Daily Double): He died on January 22, 1973; after services in Washington, D.C., he was buried on his Texas ranch Lyndon B. Johnson |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $200: The viceroy butterfly looking like the monarch is:
(A) mimicry
(B) puppetry
(C) chicory
(D) rabbitry mimicry |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $400: The only hormone that can lower blood sugar is:
(A) epinephrine
(B) glucagon
(C) thyroxine
(D) insulin insulin |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $600: A Venus's Flytrap is considered:
(A) aluminous
(B) bigamous
(C) carnivorous
(D) decamerous carnivorous |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $800: Gills are not a feature on:
(A) manatees
(B) sharks
(C) mushrooms
(D) sand dollars manatees |
| #4193, aired 2002-11-20 | BIOLOGY TEST $1000: Experiencing piloerection you have:
(A) hemorrhoids
(B) razor stubble
(C) goose bumps
(D) bed hair goose bumps |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $400: An 1845 Wagner opera is titled
A. "Blechtrommel"
B. "Tannhauser"
C. "Doppelganger"
D. "Schweinhund" B. Tannhauser |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $800: This word isn't in the Constitution's First Amendment:
A. press
B. redress
C. compress
D. establishment C. compress |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $1200: 6' 7" NFL linebacker Ted Hendricks was known as
A. "The Mad Crow"
B. "The Mad Heron"
C. "The Mad Stork"
D. "The Mad Cow" C. "The Mad Stork" |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $1600: The element with atomic number 34 is
A. Solarium
B. Sphagnum
C. Substratum
D. Selenium D. Selenium |
| #4154, aired 2002-09-26 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $2000: Paris' Pompidou Center was designed by
A. Angelo Viola
B. Renzo Piano
C. Tonio Piccolo
D. Gianni Tuba B. Renzo Piano |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | ENDS IN "O" $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows some letters on a chalkboard.) In this language introduced in 1887, the alphabet begins "a b c ĉ d" Esperanto |
| #4063, aired 2002-04-10 | B.C. $2000: Carved out near Aswan around 1250 B.C., the temples at this Egyptian site were moved in the 1960s A.D. Abu Simbel |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | CHAIN LETTERS $1200: The Chin is a 3rd century B.C. Chinese dynasty; this dynasty appeared in the 3rd Century A.D. the Han |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $200: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers Being There |
| #3755, aired 2000-12-22 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $100: Adjective for an expense that can be subtracted from earnings in regards to income taxes D-E-D-U-C-T-I-B-L-E |
| #3712, aired 2000-10-24 | "B.B."s $1000: This astronomer seen here helped survey Washington, D.C. Benjamin Banneker |
| #3669, aired 2000-07-13 | MOVIE L.A. $400: In 1913, at Selma & Vine, this director known for epics shot the first feature made in Hollywood, "The Squaw Man" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #3422, aired 1999-06-22 | HAIL THE ROMAN EMPEROR! $400: The first:
27 B.C.-14 A.D. Caesar Augustus |
| #3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $200: In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times adultery |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | THE LIVER $400: There are 5 main viral types of this inflammation of the liver—A,B,C,D,& E hepatitis |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | THE FUNNIES $100: Of B.A., B.B., B.C. or B.D., the one in "Doonesbury" B.D. |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | RICHARD NIXON $200: While in law school, Nixon planned to join this law enforcement bureau in Washington, D.C. the F.B.I. |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: His 41-year reign, from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D., was the longest of any emperor who ruled from Rome Augustus |
| #1953, aired 1993-02-17 | TEENS IN HISTORY $200: He wasn't yet 20 when he died in the 1300s B.C.; he'd been pharaoh since he was 9 or 10 Tutankhamun |
| #1943, aired 1993-02-03 | LANGUAGES $100: The golden age of literature in this language lasted from the first century B.C. to about 14 A.D. Latin |
| #1917, aired 1992-12-29 | JERUSALEM $800: The temple started by this king c. 19 B.C. was burned by the Romans in 70 A.D. King Herod |
| #1310, aired 1990-04-20 | APRIL $400: Tradition says this city was founded in April 753 B.C. by a guy who'd been raised by a wolf Rome |
| #1250, aired 1990-01-26 | MEDICAL HISTORY $200: It was used as a medicine from 600 B.C. until 2nd century A.D., when people began to wash with it soap |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | TIME $300: The year before 1 A.D. 1 B.C. |
| #1194, aired 1989-11-09 | BORN & DIED $200: Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus |
| #1128, aired 1989-06-28 | SPELL THAT NAME $500: Orville the popcorn king spells his last name this way R-E-D-E-N-B-A-C-H-E-R |
| #1088, aired 1989-05-03 | MUSICAL NUMBERS $1000: Number of different letters of the alphabet we use to denote notes 7 |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | THE ROMAN EMPIRE $600: In 73 B.C., Spartacus assembled a force on this site that would explode with force in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius |
| #795, aired 1988-02-05 | ROMAN EMPIRE $600: Term for the order maintained by the Roman Empire in its part of the world from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. Pax Romana |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): The only letters of the alphabet used to name notes in current Western musical notation a,b,c,d, e, f & g |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | BLACK AMERICA $200: G. Washington named Black surveyor B. Banneker to commission that laid out this city's boundaries Washington, D.C. |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | SCIENCE $600: In 1834, Christian Thomsen divided early human history into these 3 ages Stone, Bronze, and Iron |
| #578, aired 1987-02-25 | CENTURIES $800: Numerical designation of the century that immediately preceded the 1st century A.D. 1st century B.C. |
| #507, aired 1986-11-18 | SPELLING $1000: Full name of the lady who plays Maddie Hayes on "Moonlighting" C-Y-B-I-L-L S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D |
| #502, aired 1986-11-11 | BATTLES $400: After the Gauls besieged this city in 390 B.C., they were bought off so they'd go home Rome |
| #501, aired 1986-11-10 | 1986 B.C. $800: Historian Wm. Langer says the Sumerians were in a period of this, like Italy in 15th cent. A.D. renaissance |
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